mad - Story 87503 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The sudden bark jerked Leo awake. He sat straight up in bed, heart pounding. He checked the clock: 3:17 AM. The dog. He knew, he just knew, it had gotten out again. The thin, flimsy fence between their properties was a joke.

Leo threw back the covers, the sheet twisting around his legs. He stomped into his boots, muttering under his breath. He could feel a pressure building behind his eyes.

He wrenched the back door open, the hinges screaming in protest. Sure enough, the German Shepherd was prowling around the bird bath. "Get out of here!" he barked, his voice rough. The dog looked at him, then proceeded to relieve itself on Leo's prize-winning roses.

Emotion: mad

Cluster: Anger / Hostility

PC1 (Valence): -1.94 Negative

PC2 (Disposition): 1.26

Role in Research

This story is one of 1,000 stories generated for the emotion mad. During extraction, it was fed through Gemma4-31B and its hidden state activations were captured at 11 layers.

The mean activation across all 1,000 mad stories, after denoising with neutral dialogue baselines, produces the mad emotion vector -- a direction in the model's 5,376-dimensional representation space.

Logit Lens (Layer 40)

Tokens promoted/suppressed when the mad vector is projected through the unembedding matrix.

Promoted:

`C`	0.448
`骂`	0.344
`est`	0.340
`🤬`	0.336
`aggravated`	0.332

Suppressed:

`a`	-0.495
`de`	-0.485
`la`	-0.387
`H`	-0.344
`latter`	-0.290